The images I saw in Erik Richard´s book, The Highland Clearances, were so tragically similar to those illustrating other 'clearances', of which I knew a lot about. The same brutality, the same despair, the same feeling of helplessness.
Saturday, 13 February 2010
The Highland clearances
It was during the trip to Scotland in 2005 that I first heard and read about the Highland clearances. Passions about that process still run deep up there. This was the forced and many times brutal ejection of poor highlanders from their homes in order to create space for raising cattle, sheep and deer. It was carried out by the rich owners of the Highland estates. And it was merciless.
The images I saw in Erik Richard´s book, The Highland Clearances, were so tragically similar to those illustrating other 'clearances', of which I knew a lot about. The same brutality, the same despair, the same feeling of helplessness.
The images I saw in Erik Richard´s book, The Highland Clearances, were so tragically similar to those illustrating other 'clearances', of which I knew a lot about. The same brutality, the same despair, the same feeling of helplessness.
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